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Grand Prix sputters
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/10/grand_prix_sputtersMassport won’t pay for course fixes
Grand Prix sputters
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Joe Battenfeld
In what could be a coup de grace to Grand Prix racing in Boston, Massport and the Baker administration are refusing to spend public funds on road fixes and other costs event organizers say they need for the planned IndyCar race.
“I think it is a stretch to pull this off,” Massport CEO Thomas P. Glynn told the Herald. “Certainly from a financial point of view they (event organizers) have to show they have all these resources available.”
Glynn said Boston Grand Prix representatives asked for changes in roads and sidewalks along the proposed race course in the Seaport District that he estimated would cost $500,000 — and that security and staffing would siphon off several hundred thousand dollars more in public funds.
The Massport CEO’s bracing comments deal a serious blow to plans by Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and race organizers to stage a first-of-its-kind IndyCar road race in one of the nation’s oldest and most historic cities.